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Dozens of migrants die as boat sinks off Yemen

A boat carrying more than a hundred and fifty migrants has sunk off Yemen's southern coast, killing at least sixty-eight people. Many others are missing.

Dozens of migrants died while trying to cross the Gulf of Aden to Yemen. We'll bring you the latest.

We'll speak to the father of a twenty year old Palestinian-American who was killed, allegedly by extremist Israeli settlers, in the West Bank last month.

And, what was it like growing up in Hiroshima after the US dropped the world’s first nuclear bomb? This week marks eighty years since it happened. We'll hear from someone who used to live in the Japanese city.

(Photo: Migrants on a fiberglass boat wait to be assisted by NGO Open Arms rescue boat, Mediterranean Sea, 24 July 2025; Credit: Reuters)

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  • Mon 4 Aug 202505:06GMT